The Interpretation of Dreams

The children of immigrant parents’ having dreams of becoming an American citizen, may not become a dream after all according to Mark Krikorian’s DREAM On review. The author uses logos to persuade the audience by giving examples to convey his issues and context in this article of about the 2010 Dream Act bill Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s passed in the House of Representatives legalizing illegal immigrants’ children before the age of 16 if they comply with certain requirements is not effective.…

Achieving the American dream was the main goal in the 1920’s, and still is today. The American dream is the ideal life of freedom consisting of opportunity. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it shows how this idea had been distorted. The concept of having opportunity had been changed into the concept of obtaining wealth. By focusing too much on materialistic values, Myrtle and Gatsby had a corrupt understanding of the American dream therefore, never achieving it and making it hopeless.…

Goodman Brown”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne portrays holiness being tested by wickedness, and attests how one battles within. Hawthorne uses theme and symbolization to signify the message and leaves it to the reader to distinguish if it’s a dream or reality. The perspective of the story is based on the reader’s presumption. Two critics show deep insight of the story, “In the “Bedeviling of Young Goodman Brown”, Thomas F. Walsh Jr focuses his analyzation of the symbolization throughout the…

of a “battle companion” according to Gilgamesh’s mother the “axe” is a “strong man, a champion”. The sexual connotations symbolize how deep his feelings will be for Enkidu. Tablet VII Enkidu foresees his death through the symbolic dream of the underworld. Enkidu dreams of a man with “a somber face, a face like the lion-headed monster-bird Anzu” in the underworld, and the dead was “dressed like birds in feather garments,” The avian reference reflects a symbolic associate with birds and the souls…

key, and flower into each dream cycle to show us the meaning of these objects as well as their significance. In literature, repetition provides a means to gain special emphasis on the point you are trying to covey, which revolves around her relationship with this man. This is one example of how she made a strong point using the film version of poetic language,…

Jim Cullen defines the American Dream to be derived from the goals of the puritans which was to achieve a better life. This is seen through two elements within Cullen’s definition which are the social mobility and accumulation of wealth. Social mobility is basically the ability for one to elevate their social status or economic standing. The accumulation of wealth is described to be self-explanatory and is the ability of one to earn an immense about of wealth. These elements are embodied…

writing their wishes and dreams of what they wanted our government to look like not only then, but in the future as well. Are we as readers fulfilling their dreams by reading the Constitution as they wished or wrote it? Are we just confusing it? As humans we interpret things how we wish to see them based on our values and our views could be very different from the person next to us. Should we take every single little word of the Constitution seriously or leave it up to interpretation? That is…

Why do we dream? This unanswered question has been puzzling the masses for thousands of years. But answering this question is easier said than done because to this day we are still unsure, in spite of this science working alongside psychology has been able to piece together several informative and fascinating documentations of why they think we dream. The history of dreams, modern man was not the first to develop the obsession for analyzing our dreams, dream interpretations go back several…

For years, the “American Dream” has been up to anyone’s interpretation. People see America however they want to see it, creating people coming from the same places having differing views of the country they call home. To ask if any one essay, speech, or other writings could complicate or even challenge the American Dream is preposterous. However, in terms of the essay topic, this writer finds that this essay confirms the American Dream, not just because of Americans’ right to free speech, but…

The Life and Death of the American Dream Over the years there has been many positive interpretations of the American Dream, portrayed through movies, songs, and novels, but there is only one well known perception that stands out the most. In the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the concept of the American Dream to point out the flaws,misconceptions, ignorance, and the ideals of society. The character, Gatsby and his belief in the idea that the past can be recreated was…